{"id":1156,"date":"2007-05-02T10:20:16","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T15:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2007-05-02T10:20:16","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T15:20:16","slug":"great-now-i-have-to-worry-about-bees-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/great-now-i-have-to-worry-about-bees-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Great, now I have to worry about bees, too?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theolympian.com\/105\/story\/94236.html\">Guess so, according to a story in the paper in Olympia, Washington.<br \/>\n<\/a>  Among the tips for avoiding angry buzzers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Wear light-colored clothes. Bees zero in on objects that resemble their natural predators, such as bears and skunks, when they defend their nests.\n<\/li>\n<li> Avoid wearing scents of any kind when hiking, including scented shampoo, soap and deodorant &#8211; even scented chewing gum. Africanized honeybees are especially sensitive to odors and easily provoked by them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Main point of the story is to be on the lookout for groups of bees, this being a clue to a colony nearby. Messing with a colony tends to make the bees all Borg-like (though it would be an adventure to get your whole body covered by a swarm, as we&#8217;ve all seen on TV.  Cool for somebody besides me, that is.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guess so, according to a story in the paper in Olympia, Washington. Among the tips for avoiding angry buzzers: Wear light-colored clothes. Bees zero in on objects that resemble their natural predators, such as bears and skunks, when they defend&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/great-now-i-have-to-worry-about-bees-too\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}